LOL. Thank you, Private Man. Vid is spot on. I got called queer twice by a woman I know for not being forward enough. Young women today want ACTION! [sigh] Now I have to discipline her by withdrawing attention when she misbehaves. (No, TFH, she would be happy if I spanked her.)

“But there, where I have garnered up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life;
The fountain from the which my current runs
Or else dries up: to be discarded thence,
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
To knot and gender in.”

Most of the best comedy starts with something true/plausible but uncomfortable, then amplifies it for effect. That’s why the video is so funny. In my pre- red pill days I was a bit like the “Poem Guy” in the clip – I actually thought that most women were attracted to men who treated them with deference, kindness, and respect all the time.

Perceptive and also (I am surprised Boxer has not pointed this out) despite it being one hundred and fifty years since Marx, an indication of the continuing gap between the English middle and working classes – notice the entirely different vocabulary and accent – and also notice a fine example of the most typical English house – a ‘thirties-semi’ – with improved porch – yes that is what TFH might have had to live in had Mr and Mrs TFH senior preferred Baseball to Cricket.

Although – seeing that we write and speak the same language – the sketch is sufficiently clear to Americans so as to be funny, I do wonder whether some of the following expressions need explanation and whether one can imagine an American usage of the following expressions and with the same meaning:

whatever
oy, debbie
eastenders
such a bitch
telly
are you bloody coming out
great new play on at the national
are you queer or something
x-factor live tour
I beg your pardon
dirty girl
oi, you cheeky bastard
ugly cow
such a cheeky git
mini-cab
gormless bastard
naughty boy

That is excellent, although the better answer to Eastenders would be soap opera and dirty girl is the equivalent of your nasty. Queer really does mean Homosexual and gormless is more slow-on-the-uptake. I do not think the word Git or the term Mini-Cab [i.e. not a Hackney Cab] has ever crossed the Atlantic.

Nice guys like Mr. Poetry really think that is sexually attractive to women and they maintain that attitude to the point of arguing even as they are shown that asshole game works almost immediately. Can anybody explain that? Is the social conditioning that strong? Why doesn’t everybody watch what they do instead of what they say?

> Nice guys like Mr. Poetry really think that is sexually attractive to women and they maintain that attitude to the point of arguing even as they are shown that asshole game works almost immediately. Can anybody explain that? Is the social conditioning that strong? Why doesn’t everybody watch what they do instead of what they say?

Because he likes who he is. He likes being a cultured, nice guy. He just doesn’t like the fact that it doesn’t get him women. Thus, it leads to a psychological conflict. The Roissy crowd misses this point and just assumes that everyone is OK with giving up their culture and becoming a degenerate. They think that the only reason someone wouldn’t want to act like a degenerate is because they “don’t have the balls” to do it.

There’s definitely classist aspects to this. There’s a reason the girl’s portrayed as a chav (for the yanks: ‘white trash’). The same skit would be just as funny, and just as true, if it were a middle class career girl with a liberal arts degree, but that would be a little too close to home for Mitchell and Webb’s audience.

They are two very funny guys. If you like the kind of dry slightly awkward British humor, definitely check out their sitcom ‘Peep Show’, and this is my favourite sketch: